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Miers Remorse: Conservatives are right to be skeptical
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| 10/10/05
| JOHN FUND
Posted on 10/09/2005 9:29:32 PM PDT by BCrago66
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To: msnimje
Can someone give me a single word that sums up this sentence? secretive
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:49:29 PM PDT
by
Cboldt
To: Map Kernow
"Miers' Remorse"---I LOVE it!!!!!!Well, don't marry it, because it ain't gonna be around long.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:49:52 PM PDT
by
sinkspur
(If you're not willing to give Harriett Miers a hearing, I don't give a damn what you think.)
To: BCrago66
Yep...John Fund, secret liberal. Bush basher from waaay back.
(sarcasm)
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:49:52 PM PDT
by
trubluolyguy
(Ready, Stop! Hamster Time!)
To: msnimje
"She is unrevealing to the point that it's an obsession,"
See "stealth"
Also see "Souter"
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:50:48 PM PDT
by
trubluolyguy
(Ready, Stop! Hamster Time!)
To: BCrago66
Mr. Miers continued her meteoric rise to become the first female president of the Texas Bar Association. Maybe in Texas if a woman reaches 60 unmarried she earns the title Mr.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:50:54 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: msnimje
You've been doing quite well making up stuff as you go along... answer your own question. Surely you have a word in mind.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:51:30 PM PDT
by
onyx
((Vicksburg, MS) North is a direction. South is a way of life.)
To: GarySpFc
Clearly John Fund has little understanding of a Proverbs 31 lady. She is humble and not open to grandstanding. Being quiet and operating in the background is part and parcel of their belief system.
You meant "is not part and parcel...." I hope.
If so, beautifully expressed. Perfect!
Think they'll get it? Somehow the ego tends to get in the way of logic.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:52:21 PM PDT
by
eleni121
('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
To: VRWC For Truth
Andy Card??? Egads, now I am really nervous.
28
posted on
10/09/2005 9:52:35 PM PDT
by
Wphile
(Keep the UN out of Iraq)
To: ARCADIA
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:52:45 PM PDT
by
unseen
To: Stellar Dendrite
"Ms. Miers's record is one of initially supporting a conservative position and then abandoning it."
That's my new tagline, ;)
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:53:22 PM PDT
by
Betaille
("Ms. Miers's record is one of supporting a conservative position and then abandoning it." -John Fund)
To: msnimje
Can someone give me a single word that sums up this sentence? Sphinx.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:53:58 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: BCrago66
I find it odd that Fund lays out a litany of Republican appointments that ended up not being as conservative as they promised, naming virtually every one of the, and uses this to suggest Meirs nomination should be withdrawn.
But he seems to gloss over fact that Bush would simply have to appoint someone else.
After relating a wealth of gossip he concludes with this nugget:
"With such high stakes, it should disappoint everyone that the Senate will now have to debate the confirmation of a nominee who, when it comes to Constitutional law, resembles a secret agent more than a scholar."
I think he provides a sort of one sided Cliff notes version of the debate but adds no new information. I suspect he should take his own advice and wait till the hearings.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:54:07 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: onyx
You're making an awful lot of accusations, so let me ask you something.
Do you think that Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh, the entire editorial board of National Review, George Will, Mark Levin, Charles Krauthammer, David Frum, numerous conservative legal scholars, Phylis Schlafly, and all of the people against the Miers nomination here on FR
HAVE ALL BEEN FAKING BEING CONSERVATIVES FOR ALL THESE YEARS? If you can't answer that question then please stop making accusations.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:55:24 PM PDT
by
Betaille
("Ms. Miers's record is one of supporting a conservative position and then abandoning it." -John Fund)
To: msnimje
paradox - a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true
Further evidence the WH blew it
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:55:29 PM PDT
by
VRWC For Truth
(Trust Bush is a code word for trust the Senate)
To: BCrago66
"She never gossips, she never has a harsh word for anyone" Give her a lifetime Supreme Court appointment--- she's nice!
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:55:53 PM PDT
by
Plutarch
To: MNJohnnie
You know, Justice Thomas' nomination wasn't too long ago, so if you say something about it, most of us can access whether it is right or wrong. I was around at the time, and I followed that nomination avidly. The "Conservative Establishment" was for Thomas, and so were the great majority of Republican Senators. But the Republicans didn't control the Senate at that time, and couldn't prevent his nomination hearing from being turned into circus. All Republicans voted for Thomas, except for a couple Northeast squishes.
Clarence Thomas had a record of brilliance, as evidenced by his in his speeches and judicial opinions. He had ideological passion, and would discuss his natural rights philosophy with his associates in the government, many of whom he hired because of a similar philosophic bent. And - unlike Miers - he had taken his conservative/libertarian positions in public (and as a black man, he was excoriated for it.) Miers has a record as a play-it-safe mediocre cipher.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:56:08 PM PDT
by
BCrago66
To: Betaille
Don't forget Sam Brownback.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:56:35 PM PDT
by
Xenophon450
("Good men do not need laws to behave responsibly, whilst the bad will find a way around." - Plato)
To: onyx
This is what hearings are for --- to ask questions and evaluate the nominee. Exactly, but after suggesting this, he does an about face.
Fund isn't falling in with the hysterical Kristol's and Coulter's.
Well he does suggest that the nomination be withdrawn. It might me bore subtle than Coulter (who isn't) but its the same result.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:56:46 PM PDT
by
konaice
To: Plutarch
"Give her a lifetime Supreme Court appointment--- she's nice!"
Yeah! And she's a woman! And Bush likes her! (/sarcasm)
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:57:01 PM PDT
by
Betaille
("Ms. Miers's record is one of supporting a conservative position and then abandoning it." -John Fund)
To: unseen
Worse; Souter at least knows what he is doing and has the guts to stand for something. Miers is just going to be one big embarassing mess; The Governor Blanco of the Supreme Court.
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posted on
10/09/2005 9:57:13 PM PDT
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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